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PBS's 'Generation Next': They're Not So Easy to Peg

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"A poor decision using military force," says Jose Gonzales of Oklahoma City.

"I don't believe you can fight evil with evil," says Charisma Henderson from Little Rock.

Michael Bishop of Rogers, Ark. says he believes Americans are safer now but "we've been there for four years and it's time to go."

Woodruff has already presented four segments of this project during "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," and viewers who are interested in learning more about Nexters who appear in the documentary as well as those who don't, can visit the Web site, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/generation-next.

A mother of three Nexters herself, Woodruff closes the hour saying that there is more to this generation "than I ever dreamed."

"I came away mainly heartened by what I've learned. . . . Like every generation before them, they have the capacity for greatness that the times call for."

Beyond this optimism, what does she think about this generation as a whole? Woodruff and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have plans for a "Generation Next, Part 2." Perhaps we'll learn then.

Generation Next (one hour) premieres tonight at 9:30 on WETA (Channel 26).

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